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Automotive Quality Standard TS16949

Wye Valley Precision Engineering Ltd. are pleased to announce that, after completing a 4 day audit, their Certification body SGS have recommended that they be awarded the prestigious Automotive Quality Standard TS16949. This in addition to the ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100 standards currently held by Wye Valley.

Wye Valley Precision Engineering (Holdings) Ltd. are pleased to announce they have been recommended for the “Aerospace Quality Standard AS 9100 Rev. C.” and hope to be able to display the prestigious Certificate and add it to their web site shortly.

The resulting seal has reduced the production cost for the seal by 20% and has given them a more durable solution, with a significantly shorter lead-time. The Wye Valley Precision Engineering team plays a key role in this client’s supply chain and are now evaluating further rubber moulding requirements within the group.

The components were manufactured and dispatched quickly and continue to play a critical role for this client’s systems globally. As a trusted partner, Wye Valley Precision Engineering now holds a permanent stock of the high-specification materials, ensuring that they can always deliver quality, uniquely customised components, even at short notice.

Wye Valley Precision Engineering now automatically assembles all the components through rubber to metal bonding, as part of the production process. This has reduced costs and production lead times as required and the connectors are now more durable and less prone to failure through human error.

With the ever increasing demand for "one stop shops", Wye Valley have moved with the times yet again and now offer their customers a full range of "O" rings. With customers constantly looking to single source all their rubber components Wye Valley decided that they most strive to keep one step ahead and offer the complete package.

Installation of a Hurco vertical machining centre (VMC) in the tool room at the Ross-on-Wye factory of rubber mouldings manufacturer, Wye Valley Precision Engineering, has resulted in much faster availability of mould tools compared with when the company was using a manual-tool-change CNC mill. A typical middle plate in P20 tool steel is now programmed and machined in six hours, whereas the same job used to take a week.

As part of our commitment to supplying top quality components the state of all our machines can now be viewed on any of our networked P.C.s. All REP Injection presses are now connected to diagnostic software called REPNetWin giving us real time values and conditions.